Glad I made it here to give you an upvote before this reached payout!
I say that as much as anything to point out that re-steems-- especially after several days-- really DO work.
But I digress... @beanz, certainly a good strategy; although not really workable for many minnows.
Personally, I dig this new format... it has brought deeper meaning to "curating" for me; my default setting now is 20% for posts... and I scale up and down, and it's great to be able to reward truly stellar content with a 100% upvote; really good with 50%, good with 25% and so on all the way to "better than empty space" getting 3%... now it feels really more like a true process of actually sorting for VALUE.
Of course, I'm an ex editor, so that makes sense, on a more personal level.